The .de Outage that Blocked Amazon and eBay.
Major DNSSEC Misconfiguration Cripples Germany's .de Domains, Impacting Amazon, eBay, and Millions More DENIC , the central registry for Germany’s country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) .de , recently suffered a major DNSSEC misconfiguration. The error caused widespread resolution failures across the internet, particularly affecting domains that utilized DNSSEC for enhanced security. The "Security" That Led to a Shutdown For users relying on public DNS resolvers that strictly enforce DNSSEC validation such as Google (8.8.8.8) and Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) the impact was immediate. These resolvers could not verify the authenticity of the records, leading to a complete inability to query any impacted .de addresses. Major global platforms, including amazon.de and ebay.de , were among those rendered inaccessible during the peak of the crisis. Technical Root Cause and Resolution The failure stemmed from an RRSIG (Resource Record Signature) update that failed to match the publish...